HOUSE BILL No. 4962


     June 25, 1997, Introduced by Reps. McManus, Hammerstrom, Horton, Law, Goschka, McBryde, Bodem, Raczkowski, Nye, Jansen, Geiger, Lowe, Voorhees, Whyman, Byl, Rhead, Llewellyn, McNutt, Godchaux, Kukuk, Green, Johnson, Cropsey, Cassis, Leland, Birkholz, Brown and Perricone and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.


        A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

   "The Michigan penal code,"

   (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 430a.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         SEC. 430A.  (1) AN INDIVIDUAL SHALL NOT CLONE OR ATTEMPT TO

 2    CLONE A HUMAN BEING.  THIS SUBSECTION DOES NOT PROHIBIT A

 3    LICENSED HEALTH PROFESSIONAL FROM ENGAGING IN ASSISTED REPRODUC-

 4    TIVE TECHNOLOGY.

 5         (2) AN INDIVIDUAL WHO VIOLATES SUBSECTION (1) IS GUILTY OF A

 6    FELONY PUNISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 10 YEARS OR A

 7    FINE OF NOT MORE THAN $5,000.00, OR BOTH.

 8         (3) AS USED IN THIS SECTION:

 9         (A) "ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY" MEANS A TREATMENT OR

10    PROCEDURE TO ENHANCE HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE CAPABILITY THROUGH THE




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 1    MANIPULATION OF HUMAN OOCYTES OR EMBRYOS, AND INCLUDES ALL OF THE

 2    FOLLOWING, BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CLONING OF A HUMAN EMBRYO:

 3         (i) IN VITRO FERTILIZATION.

 4         (ii) GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER.

 5         (iii) ZYGOTE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER.

 6         (B) "CLONE" OR "CLONING" MEANS THE ASEXUAL GROWING OF A

 7    GENETICALLY IDENTICAL HUMAN BEING FROM A SINGLE SOMATIC CELL OF

 8    AN INDIVIDUAL.








































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